According to academics, a scaleup is, “a high growth firm whose accelerated cycle of growth and wealth creation is fundamentally based on the scalability of its business model.” But having solved those initial problems, new problems arise. Techleap.nl, a team dedicated to empowering Dutch tech companies, recently released a series of video interviews in which they ask successful scaleup founders about the biggest issues they’ve encountered while growing. Hiring the right people and maintaining a close-knit community was one of them: This is especially the case for your leadership team....

Enter the Expressive E Osmose, one of the most exciting takes on the synth keyboard I’ve seen to date. The Osmose can be played just like a regular keyboard, but adds a huge amount of expressiveness thanks to 49 keys that can articulate notes by literally swaying side to side. Unlike a traditional pitch wheel, this means you can bend the pitch of individual notes within a chord, and it means you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard to articulate notes while jamming....

In basic terms, most times you use a technology application, you—often unknowingly—reveal your personal data including your age, location, and sex amongst other things. This data is collected and analyzed and then used to personalize your online experience. For example, an article on Watchblog talks about how your online shopping habits are monitored by tracking companies that later leads to better personalized online experiences. This information is then sometimes sold by those tracking companies to larger entities for future use....

The militant group has been seen with an array of stolen firearms and vehicles. There are also growing fears about the biometric systems that they’ve seized. “We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanistan, including some left behind by coalition military forces,” said Human Rights First, a US NGO, on Monday. “This technology is likely to include access to a database with fingerprints and iris scans, and include facial recognition technology....

Even if you aren’t a tech tinkerer, the concept behind the Internet of Things is bound to fascinate. With WiFi capabilities expanding and the proliferation of web-enabled devices putting sensors in almost everything, it’s never been easier to connect virtually any electronic device to the Internet. And with that type of connectivity driving everything from coffee makers and lamps to washing machines and wearable tech, how long before somebody creates autonomous bed bug catchers or noise-cancelling forks?...

This new order also states that these platforms need to remove hateful content promoting racism, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, and aggravated insults within 24 hours of notification. [Read: Confetti, koalas, and candles of love: Backstage at the AI song contest] The French authorities have also raised the cap of the fine in case of a breach from 37,500 euros ($40,534) to 1.2 million euros ($1.35 million). The fine can even go up to 4% of the company’s global revenues....

Nomophobia. It’s out there. It’s very real. And statistically speaking, there’s a good chance you have it. Nomophobia is a creeping sense of dread or fear when you don’t have access to a working phone. And while that might sound odd, about 2 out of 3 people exhibit some version of nomophobia, almost 66 percent of the population. Frankly, it’s not really all that crazy if you consider what a phone represents these days....

But astronomers have promised to leave “no stone unturned” and have started to cast their net wider out into the galaxy. The idea is to extract information from astrophysical objects that may have witnessed chunks of it as they were passing by. We have just proposed a new method of doing so by tracing galactic gas – and it may help tell us what it’s actually made of. Physicists believe that dark matter has a propensity to structure itself into a hierarchy of haloes and subhaloes, via gravity....

So when the iconic brand and its affiliated company, Serial 1 Cycle, released their ebikes back in November 2020, I got very excited that I’d be able to try at least one Harley-Davidson vehicle. Yet again, I don’t live in the US nor in Germany, so there was no way to get my hands on it — which was a crying shame. But, folks, things are looking up for me....

Second screens always come in handy, especially when the first screen is a little on the small side. You can practically feel your eyeballs scrunching up and your vision deteriorating as you hold a phone screen inches from your face while you play a game or try to get some work done on that minuscule canvas. Instead, users can have a ready-to-go second screen on the fly whenever it’s needed with the Uperfect 15....

I used to be all in on smartwatches, but after constant disappointment as an Android user, I gave up on the idea altogether. Wear OS devices are usually too bulky, slow, and/or have sucky battery life. And while Samsung largely addressed the battery life problem by going with its own Tizen OS devices, app support for Galaxy Watches has been lackluster. Now the two companies are joining forces to create a better, faster, and more efficient Wear OS, “bringing the best of Wear and Tizen into a single, unified platform....

The company said it’s been testing the line in two cities: Lucknow in Kanpur. If you’re a Vodafone-India user in India, you can call 000-800-9191-000 to chat with Assistant in English or Hindi. Google said you can check scores, get traffic updates, and locate stores around you with this line. The line will be toll-free and you would be able to ask contextual queries such as local weather, but you won’t get answers to queries that are personalized to your account....

Starting from today, if you say “Ok Google, play me the news,” your device will reply with a personalized playlist of the day’s stories and breaking news headlines. “By analyzing what’s being said within a given audio file, we can apply our understanding around what text articles are about, how news stories evolve, how topics link together and what might be most relevant to a particular user’s interests,” Liz Gannes, Google’s Product Manager said in a post yesterday....

Today, digital advertising has surpassed those channels, pervading our desktops and laptops, smartphones, tablets, and a variety of other internet-connected devices. And perhaps the biggest player in the online advertising space is Google. Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), says Google now dominates the country’s online advertising so thoroughly it must be reined in. The ACCC maintains that over the past ten years, Google’s advertising technology has developed to the point of being anti-competitive....

As Google Translate software engineer Isaac Caswell was quick to add, these are the first languages it’s added to Translate in four years, and brings the total number of languages it supports up to 108. It also added that the ability to speak these languages will enable you to communicate with 75 million more people. The languages are spoken in, respectively, Rwanda, the Indian state of Odisha, Tatarstan and Siberia, Turkmenistan, and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China....

Yes, you read that right: the Nest Hub is able to track restful sleep through its radar-based Soli technology. After wowing everyone with its initial potential, and then disappointing everyone with its implementation in the Pixel 4, Google hasn’t given up on the futuristic technology. And if you can get past the idea of Google being able to monitor your movements in bed — a pretty big ‘if’ for some people — the idea is pretty neat....

There are a couple of things you can do through the new Smart fill feature in Google Sheets. If you have a column with full names, and you’re making one with last names, it’ll suggest formula as soon as you type the first entry. Similarly, if you have a column for a postal address, and you’re creating another with postcodes, the new smart autofill will pick up these codes after you key in the first entry....

A new Google machine learning initiative aims to replace the rancid cookies with a privacy-first alternative. The search giant calls the system Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). FLoC (pronounced “flock”) allows businesses to send ads to groups of potential customers rather than specific individuals. The system uses machine learning algorithms to create clusters of people with similar browsing habits. All the data analyzed by the algorithms — including your web history — is kept private on the browser and not uploaded anywhere else....

The internet giant has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — into an internet standard after 25 years. To that effect, it has also made its C++ robots.txt parser that underpins the Googlebot web crawler available on GitHub for anyone to access. “We wanted to help website owners and developers create amazing experiences on the internet instead of worrying about how to control crawlers,” Google said....

It’s no longer enough to have a couple of graphic designers to shoulder the burden of this responsibility. In the social media age, a truly successful brand needs seamless harmony across different platforms, whether it’s in traditional advertising, communications, or customer service. It’s not just about engaging aesthetics, but ensuring that anyone who needs to work with the brand image can do so quickly and effectively. Not only does it save time and money, but everyone can stay on the same page with a greater sense of productivity....